Electron microscopy diagnostic at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$433.16
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,190.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$340.97 with Kaiser vs $3,724.70 with Sutter Health — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $340.97 | ↓ -21% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $340.97 | ↓ -21% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $340.97 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $340.97 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $340.97 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $340.97 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $419.39 | ↓ -3% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $419.39 | ↓ -3% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $419.39 | ↓ -3% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $419.39 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $444.73 | ↑ +3% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $511.70 | ↑ +18% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $559.01 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $753.73 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $787.38 | ↑ +82% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $787.38 | ↑ +82% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $787.38 | ↑ +82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $809.20 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $916.30 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $975.80 | ↑ +125% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $1,190.00 | ↑ +175% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,197.98 | ↑ +177% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,197.98 | ↑ +177% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $1,309.00 | ↑ +202% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,343.34 | ↑ +210% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,724.70 | ↑ +760% |
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $83.66 | $51.57 – $1,023.81 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $295.40 | $163.38 – $679.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,200.54 | $271.27 – $1,256.40 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $629.34 | $21.00 – $994.21 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $458.21 | $177.99 – $674.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $576.40 | $11.34 – $1,168.77 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $204.05 | $260.50 – $1,108.83 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $201.85 | $260.50 – $1,108.83 |